Comparative analysis of the creation and promotion of interior items in the Soviet Union and Western Europe in the 50-90s of the twentieth century

Abstract

In the second half of the twentieth century, changing economic and social conditions, as well as the emergence of new materials and technologies in the production of interior items, force to rethink the approach to interior design. There was also a task not only to acquaint ordinary people with new items and technologies, but also to make to buy them. I would like to consider these issues on the example of the Soviet Union, where the state was the only producer, and Western Europe, where there was a market for private competing industries. In the first case, state institutions created standards and introduced them into production in accordance with the State plan; in the second, the demand of the population and the creative ideas of private designers pushed for the creation of new interior items.